The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.